Global Astrophysical Telescope System — telescope No. 2

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The Synthesis Telescope at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory

We describe an aperture synthesis radio telescope optimized for studies of the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM), providing the ability to image extended structures with high angular resolution over wide fields. The telescope produces images of atomic hydrogen emission using the 21-cm H i spectral line, and, simultaneously, continuum emission in two bands centred at 1420MHz and 408MHz, includi...

The ALMA Telescope Control System

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is a joint project between North America, Europe and Japan. ALMA is an aperture synthesis radio telescope consisting of 50 12-meter antennas located at an elevation of 5,000 meters in Llano de Chajnantor, Chile. These antennas will operate at frequencies ranging from 31.3 GHz to 950 GHz. The antennas can be moved and placed in different configurations, ...

The ROTSE-IIIa Telescope System

We report on the current operating status of the ROTSE-IIIa telescope, currently undergoing testing at Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico. It will be shipped to Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in first quarter 2002. ROTSE-IIIa has been in automated observing mode since early October, 2001, after completing several weeks of calibration and check-out observations. Calibrated lis...

Virtual Telescope: A Mobile Augmented Reality System

We present a mobile image matching application for Android mobile phone called Virtual Telescope to assist users in viewing distant buildings. The application automatically augments photo's field of view by retrieving replacement images and satellite images from the Internet. The application adopts content based image retrieval method and allow user two choices of feature descriptor, namely Sca...